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The artist you meet in a small, revelatory show is quite different from the one known for mail art and his later gritty samplings of popular culture. In 1949, a [...]

A big retrospective bypassed New York recently but two gallery exhibitions, at 52 Walker and Michael Rosenfeld, more than make up for it. Few painters have used color as vigorously [...]

A small, exquisite exhibition at the Guggenheim shows how the City of Light transformed the 19-year-old Spanish artist. One painting says it all. Some celebrations are fleeting, others bring permanent, [...]

With 120 works on paper and eight paintings spanning more than four decades, this show proposes a new theory about the artist. In the spring of 1946 the Museum of [...]

After panning an artist's work 23 years ago, our veteran critic had a change of mind following three visits to ''Death and the Maid'' at the Met. Artists change, but [...]

The German artist says the 14 paintings here are among his last. Even so, their freshness and spontaneity feels like a new beginning. Over the past several years the prolific, [...]

His new paintings, with their perfect planes of color, expand on the theme of ''Black Joy,'' proving that delight and humor are their own form of resistance. In ''I Can [...]

His eight-decade retrospective at the Guggenheim is a dazzling matchup of singular artworks -- some fresh from the studio -- and celebrated spiral. At first the prospect of an Alex [...]

The paintings of this self-taught artist slipped from view after his death in 1946. A lavish exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum speeds his return. It is a testament [...]

The artist has been a major -- if underrecognized -- American talent. But the biggest look yet at her achievement gives it a whole new stature. If you've paid any [...]

A show at the Metropolitan Museum presents us with what is in many ways a whole new artist whose achievement in painting will need to be factored into art history. [...]

Shows in Hartford and New York spotlight great works by Milton Avery from every decade, and those of Sally Michel, who helped shape her husband's art. HARTFORD, Conn. -- There [...]

John Divola at Yancey Richardson; John Miller at Maxwell Graham/Essex Street; Michelle Grabner at Alice Austen House; Carlos Villa at the Newark Museum of Art. John Divola Through May 21. [...]

The objects in the painting are brought together in a spectacular show at the Museum of Modern Art. It's a marvel of detective work by the curators. The Museum of [...]

At 46, the well-known painter changes direction, emphasizing intuition over concept to make the most riveting paintings of his career. Joe Bradley has been having solo shows in New York [...]

A show of masterworks at the Met snaps into sharp focus the great American artist's contemporary relevance. The wondrous exhibition ''Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents'' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art begins [...]

A show in two downtown galleries surveys the Covid cityscapes of this multitalented artist, who has become one of the town's best painters. ''Stop flitting around the house and take [...]

A 13-painting show surveys a great career and marks the publication of a catalog of all the artist's paintings of family, friends and London in a single, weighty volume. During [...]

The medium is our art critic's favorite -- and this is a rich moment to indulge in works on paper, from the Drawing Center to the weeklong Master Drawings New [...]

A poignant gallery show of the artist's ''Shutter Paintings'' is paired with an exceptional Whitney exhibition of the forward-looking prints that she and her contemporaries made in days gone by. [...]

The art of the American painter Beauford Delaney, who died over four decades ago, deserves sustained attention from a major New York museum. That it has not already happened is [...]

Check out Alvaro Barrington's Neo-Expressionist paintings with a political edge; and Jill Freedman's visceral photos of street cops from the '70s. Alvaro Barrington Through Oct. 23. Nicola Vassell Gallery, 138 [...]

Three gallery shows of new work by veteran artists who happen to be women highlight their different ways and means of development, and the way they are taking new risks. [...]

Compensating for a postponed museum retrospective, an exciting gallery show revisits the painter's late figurative style. Hauser & Wirth, the gallery that has represented the estate of Philip Guston since [...]

The artist's career-spanning survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is about to close. ''Alice Neel: People Come First,'' on view through Aug. 1, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [...]

The sweep of Italian history and art history in dazzling portraits from the dynasty's final hurrah, on view in a sumptuous exhibition at the Met. It's hard to imagine Florence, [...]

In the first survey of an artist who took a 30-year hiatus from the art world, his special brand of realism remains strong even as it becomes more abstract. A [...]

A large retrospective feels at home in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's grandest galleries and should silence any doubt about the artist's originality or her importance. It is said that [...]

The artist's earliest Color Field paintings, with their indomitable colors, austere compositions and wild pictorial spaces, are among the movement's signal achievements. In the early 1960s, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) made [...]

Two shows introduce a forgotten innovator who fused modernism, folk art and documentary to portray his beloved New York scene. HUNTINGTON, N.Y. -- In the early decades of the 20th-century, [...]

A brilliant debut at the Whitney Museum by the artist -- born in Pakistan and based in New York -- refreshes figurative painting by using it as a means to [...]

A painter's new show ventures away from the past, toward contemporary traumas in Black lives. Titus Kaphar's paintings have always been blunt in confronting both the paucity of Black figures […]

In the 1960s art world, illusion was a dirty word. The old tradition of a painting as a window onto imaginary realities seemed beyond exhausted -- just more proof of [...]

The Jamaican visionary John Dunkley (1891-1947) is the latest artist to decimate the distinctions between self-taught and trained, outsider and insider and folk and not folk. The first large museum [...]

A new self-awareness entered painting toward the end of the 20th century, which initiated an irreverent, sometimes but not always loving interrogation of the medium. Artists of several generations and [...]

It's nearly New Year's Eve: time to make a list -- and check it twice -- of all the museum shows that will close soon. One of the best, which [...]

Nearly a century and a half after his death, the 19th-century French landscape painter Thodore Rousseau is having his first retrospective in the United States. ''The Untamed Landscape: Thodore Rousseau [...]

A big ''Wow'' is in order. Albert Oehlen's scintillating Fabric Paintings, now around 20 years old, are quite a sight -- and they've barely been seen before. According to the [...]

Chris Ofili makes paintings that will not let us be. For more than two decades, the work of this British artist has dazzled and discomfited, seduced and unsettled, gliding effortlessly [...]

Harriet Korman established her faith in freehand drawing in the early 1970s. As a briefly hot, emerging artist, she first showed at Galerie Ricke in Cologne and later at 112 [...]

The acerbic Caf Deutschland paintings of J÷rg Immendorff are back in New York in bulk for the first time since this German Neo-Expressionist's American debut at the Sonnabend Gallery in [...]

Genieve Figgis's small acrylic paintings are nastily entertaining pieces of work. An Irish artist having her first solo in New York, Ms. Figgis favors rich colors that bubble, ooze and [...]